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by jamal-kumar 1027 days ago
Turns out when people try to write press release copy when English isn't their first language it sounds kind of funny. I see this alot in my own line of work. Honestly they're just making their best emulation of the kind of stodgy copy we tend to write in better english that's honestly so samey you don't even need AI to make it, you can just use a cheapo markov chain generator. [1] I use this for my lorem ipsum personally, fun to watch bosses actually try to read it.

[1] http://pasta.phyrama.com:8083/cgi-bin/live.exe

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> when English isn't their first language

India is among the world’s largest English-speaking populations. “Official” Indian English is just a tortured evolution of Victorian English, so it comes across as bumbling when contrasted with the clean, crisp communication we tend to value today.